Comments on: The value of short-term missions /blog/index.php/2010/01/07/the-value-of-short-term-missions/ News and happenings from around Gospel.com Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:17:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 By: Debbie Bird /blog/index.php/2010/01/07/the-value-of-short-term-missions/comment-page-1/#comment-36619 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:09:23 +0000 /blog/?p=3283#comment-36619 Anytime I would visualize myself in the mission field I was in Africa, surrounded by some of the world’s most hungry children. As a young girl I had lived in Ethiopia and had dreams of returning. Yet the Lord surrounded me with English speaking orphans instead. He placed me in a ‘Christian’ country. God took me to a nation where Christian churches are on every corner. He prepared the way for me to serve those forgotten by their own people. It is so far away from the 10/40 Window.

Because the poor, the prisoners and the orphans of this country are only a 45 minute plane ride from the shores of America it is feasible for churches to send regular short term missions. Because of that we have been able to begin rebuilding homes and sharing the gospel with the All Saints AIDS Camp. Men are accepting Christ in the prisons. Orphans have shoes and are learning to read. From children to the retired, those on short term mission now go back educated, excited and encouraged.

Because of short term missions the islands of the Bahamas hears the love of Christ in ways that has not happened in any other way. Short terms missions brings awareness that these islands are not even close to being what the tourist see. Short term missionaries share the word of the needs that blanket the hundreds of islands that are all but forgotten by mission boards.

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